About This Blog

This blog features: neighborhood restaurants, nearby restaurants, downtown restaurants, Casa View Shopping Center, nearby shopping, Downtown shops.

I will first list places and my connections with them. For the spirit of completeness, I will then list other places, known to me but not visited. I choose not to list the unknown.

I like the section entitled Places I Wish I Had Visited.

My focus is places and locations which existed from 1953, when I moved to Dallas, until 1965, when I graduated from high school. This list will continue with my college years, until I turned 21. I left Dallas in 1969 and, as I did not return except to visit my parents until 1973, my memory of East Dallas ends at that time.

Some categories were easy to separate – restaurants and shopping. Some experiences are not so easy to categorize, but are still meaningful. They may be all lumped in together, and then teased out as other connections are made.

Music wise, we may have thought we were born of the “wrong generation.” I always thought the older generation (i.e. 3 to 4 years older than me) had a richer and deeper experience.

But we, the beginning of the Baby Boomer generation, had it best – stable family life, rising expectations for the middle class and parents who wanted to give so much to their children, which most did not have in their childhood. We were left to play and roam outdoors to make our own fun. We had the best toys and the best music.

And yet we lived in tumultuous times – the Cold War, Civil Rights, Integration and the Kennedy Assassination through the killings of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Hopefully we came out as loving, caring, sharing adults whose experiences made us better people and gave us the ability to show appreciation and gratitude for the neighborhood and experiences which enriched us and our loved ones.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Restaurants - Downtown Dallas: 40 Listings

Mayflower Doughnut Shop - 1701 live Oak St at Ervay.  RI-7-285.
As you travel through life, brother, whatever be your goal.  Keep your eye upon the doughnut, and not upon the hold.

Picadilly Cafeteria - 1503 Commerce.  RI-2-5875.
Scene of integration battles, along with HL Greene's.

Deluxe Diner #3 - 1937 Commerce.  RI-1-0341.
Across the street from the library.  Had delicious greasy french fries to eat on the bus before going home.

The Topper - the Tenderloin of late night downtown Dallas.  #3 1105 Commerce.  R1-1-0509.

 Ports O Call - R1-2-2334.
Atop the Southland Center Building, 37th floor.  Serving food from Singapore, Saigon, Papiete and Macao.

Brockles Restaurant - 817 S. Ervay.  R1-2-0208.
Their salad dressing was available locally.  We put it on saltine crackers for a tempting treat.

 Majestic Steak House - 1926 Elm R1-2-0666.

Sam and Pete's Sandwich Shop - 1308 Main Street.  R1-1-0090.

Italian Inn - 409 N. Olive.  R1-8-3591.
"Dine tonight by candlelight, in the atmostphere of Old Italy."  Across from the Sheraton Hotel and Southland Center.

Wooden walls, thick wood tables, some of which had shuttered doors.  Chianti bottles with wicker holders and melted wax down the sides provided illumination.  The perfect place to take a date.

Bell's Barbecue - 1215 Jackson  R1-1-0809.

Louis' Oyster Bar - 1609 Pacific.  R1-1-0743.
Downtown, behind theaters.

 Odd Penny Restaurant - 219 Browder.  R1-1-0023.
I believe we are fish on Fridays here during the summer of 1964.

The Peanut Shop - 1607 Elm St.  R1-2-0392.

Saddle + Spur Barbecue - 1914 Commerce.  R1-7-2011.
First place I ate barbecue, with my dad.  Ordered a Po' boy with extra sauce and an orange drink.  At the back of the Statler Hilton, two blocks from my dad's office.

Chateau Briand - 2512 McKinney.  R1-7-9131.

The Copper Cow - 1519 Commerce.  R1-7-5610.

El Fenix - 1608 McKinney.  RA-7-1121.

Cattlemen's Steak House - 2007 Live Oak at Harwood.  R1-7-9131.  Between Sheraton and Statler Hilton Hotel.

Joe Banks Cafe - 612 Main Street.  R1-2-0755.
Sat so I could overhear the conversation of Frank Tolbert and Paul Crane.

Beck's Charbroiler - 1816 Main.  R!-2-0427.

The Chefette - 211 N. Ervay.  R1-8-6084.

Shanghai Jimmy's Chili Rice - 1630 Bryan.  R1-3-0061.

Blue Front - 1105 Elm St.  R1-1-0061.

Zodiac Room - 1618 Main Street.  Neiman Marcus.  741-6911.

Rheinscherhof German Food - 420 N. St. Paul.  R1-7-4301/
Across from the Post Office.

Sol's Turf Bar - 1515 Commerce.  Ra-7-1796.

Steak House Unique - 1500 Commerce.  R1-7-5785.
Tom Woolf and Jack Rush planted the seed in 1948 when they opened a cafe at 215 S. Akard and called it "Unique Restaurant."  they moved to larger quarters on Commerce in 1953.

Vicki's Continental Restaurant - Vaughn Building.  R1-7-8038.

Vincent's Seafood - 101 S. Poydras.  R1-2-0360.

Oyster House - 108 N. Akard.  214-747-2119.
Oysters on the half-shell.  10 AM - 2 AM.  Mixed drink.  Near Adolphus and Baker Hotels.  A place to go if you really wanted to "know" about the Kennedy assasination.

Ole Warsaw - 3914 Cedar Springs.  LA-8-0032.
Opened Sometime between 1948 and 1950

Arthur's - 3707 McKinney.  LA-1-9346.

Mario's - 4300 Lemmon Ave  LA-1-1135.

The Record Grill - 605 Elm Street.  214-742-1353.
Occupies about 2 car widths in a parking lot across from the County Records Building.  They must have "powerful" friends in the city government, or many hungry workers.

Town and Country - 2016 Commerce.
 Opened 1951.










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